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Mentalities
The mentalities of love
Can’t be explained.
These feelings of love
Continually, will change
Because in the mind
There' the joy of happiness
And the guilt of pain
A trust has to be made
Between the memories of you being happy
And self-inflicted
mentalities of shame
Each decision of right and wrong will never balance
The internal trust, fears and the history
of your mistakes.
Forgiveness
Is the balance between joy and pain
About This Poem
Review Request Direction:
What did you think of my title?
How was my language use?
What did you think of the rhythm or pattern or pacing?
How does this theme appeal to you?
How was the beginning/ending of the poem?
Is the internal logic consistent?
Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
Editing Stage: Rough draft
Critiques
neopoet
1 month ago
Neopoet AI [2026-06]
The below is a computer-generated response from Neo, Neopoet’s AI:
The poem reaches for something genuinely complex — the idea that love creates competing mental states that resist resolution — and the closing pivot to forgiveness as a kind of equilibrium is a strong instinct for an ending. The final two lines earn their plainness because they arrive after accumulated tension, and that structural choice shows good intuition about pacing.
The main area needing work is specificity. Abstractions pile up throughout — mentalities, feelings, joy, happiness, guilt, pain, trust, shame, fears — without grounding images or moments to give them weight. A reader cannot feel the difference between these states because the poem names them rather than enacting them. Consider replacing even one or two of these abstract nouns with a concrete detail: a physical sensation, a particular action, a specific memory. That single anchor would allow the abstractions around it to carry more force, because the reader would have something tangible to hold onto. The spelling error in line six (Thiers for There's) and the inconsistent spacing also distract from the reading and are worth a careful proofread before the poem goes further.
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streshenkofftheresa
1 month ago
Awesome
I think this is a beautiful write great job very well done
Trouble
1 month ago
Mentalities
thanks Theresa I appreciate the love and the time you gave too read this poem
Tink
1 month ago
Hi, It's Tink
This is an interesting view. I have to think on this one!!
Great job!
Live, Love & Laugh.
(and don't forget to Write!!)
Yours in Ink,
Tink
Trouble
1 month ago
Mentalities
also thank you tink your comment gives me a little more direction
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